Age at Menarche and Age at First Sexual Intercourse: A Prospective Cohort Study | Zendy

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Age at Menarche and Age at First Sexual Intercourse: A Prospective Cohort Study

Author(s) -

Jennifer L. Marino,

S. Rachel Skinner,

Dorota A. Doherty,

Susan L. Rosenthal,

Spring Chenoa Cooper Robbins,

Jeffrey Can,

Martha Hickey

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

pediatrics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.611

H-Index - 345

eISSN - 1098-4275

pISSN - 0031-4005

DOI - 10.1542/peds.2012-3634

Subject(s) - medicine , menarche , interquartile range , prospective cohort study , confidence interval , hazard ratio , demography , cohort , cohort study , sexual intercourse , proportional hazards model , young adult , pediatrics , population , obstetrics , environmental health , sociology

Younger age at menarche (AAM) may put girls at risk for earlier first sexual intercourse (FSI). Young age at FSI has far-reaching negative outcomes. We describe the longitudinal relationship between AAM and FSI in a large prospective birth cohort.

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